| Description |
1 online resource (247 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series |
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Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series
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| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Text -- Introduction: '[P]oore Chronicler of a Lord Maior's Naked Truth'? Introducing Middleton's Theatrical Legacy -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Section 1: Critical and Textual Reception -- 1. Our Other Shakespeare?: The Legacy and Controversies of the Oxford Middleton -- Hidden Author: Middleton's Early Printed History -- Authorship and Errata: Constructing Canons -- Appealing to Authority: 'Our Other Shakespeare'? |
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Future Directions -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 2. Creative Marking: Middleton's and Crane's Punctuation in A Game at Chesse -- Chesse Pieces -- Middleton's Chesse Transcriptions -- Comparison of Trinity to B-H -- Statistical Considerations -- Verdict on Middleton's Punctuation -- The Crane Technique -- Statistical Considerations -- 'Wonder Worke' -- Verdict on Crane -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 3. The Puritan's Paper Trail: Or, Print, Plays, and Plot-Holes -- Golden Chains -- Weak Links -- Forged Bonds -- Paper Chains -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 4. 'I Think It Was a Shirt |
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I Know Not Well': The Depiction and Deception of Linens in The Widow -- Clean Linens -- Theatrical Linens -- Linens in The Widow -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Section 2: Afterlives and Legacies -- 5. Roaring Boys: Assembling Masculinity on Middleton's Stage -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 6. 'Black, Wicked, and Unnatural': Locating Monstrosity in The Revenger's Tragedy -- Recognising Blackness and Race -- Racecraft and Monstrosity -- '[A]m I Black Enough?' -- 'Spotting' Monstrosity and Its Corollaries -- The Monstrous Inheritance of Blood and Ink -- Notes -- Works Cited |
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7. The Uses of the Masque in Middleton's No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's across the Seventeenth Century -- No Wit in 1611 -- No Wit in 1638 -- The Counterfeit Bridegroom in 1677 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 8. Vigilante Irony: Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy and Modern Media -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 9. Teaching The Roaring Girl in a Post-Binary World -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Section 3: Practice and Performance -- 10. 'The Full Scope, the Manner, and Intent': Questions of Scale and Context in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Productions of Women Beware Women -- Notes -- Works Cited |
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11. The Bloody Banquet in Performance -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 12. Reconstructing The Sun in Aries: An Interview with Beyond Shakespeare -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 13. The Afterlives of Thomas Middleton's Civic Pageantry -- Beyond Shakespeare -- Beyond the Public Stage -- Lord Mayor's Shows: Form -- 1913: 'An Abridged Reproduction' -- 1988: 'The Lord Mayor of London's Jacobean Thames Pageant' -- Beyond The Triumphs of Truth -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Afterword: Hearing Middleton -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Summary |
This volume celebrates Thomas Middleton's legacy as a dramatist, marking the 400th anniversary of Middleton's most contentious work for the public theatres, A Game at Chess (1624). The book offers an assessment of the place of Middleton's drama in culture, criticism, and education today |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hegland, Anna L
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Jermy, Sam
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| ISBN |
9781040010327 |
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1040010326 |
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